An Act to confer certain powers on certain public bodies and to authorise and validate certain transactions and other matters

1Short Title

This Act may be cited as the Local Legislation Act 1982.

2Auckland Regional Authority: Authorising payments to persons attending meetings and conferences, and validating illegal payments made to such persons

(1)Before 1 April 1983, subsections (1)(d) and (3)(c) of section 214 of the Local Government Act 1974 shall apply with respect to persons who—

(a)are members of any committee or subcommittee of the Auckland Regional Authority (hereafter in this section referred to as the Authority); and

(b)are neither members nor employees of the Authority,—

as if they are members of the Authority.

(2)Where, pursuant to a resolution of the Authority, any member of the Authority, or any member of a committee or subcommittee of the Authority (whether or not a member of the Authority), attends any conference or meeting before 1 April 1983 as a representative of the Authority, not being a meeting of any local authority of which he is a member, the said section 214 shall apply to that member's attendance at that meeting or conference as if the term regional council included the Authority.

(3)Every payment made before the commencement of this Act by the Authority to any person in respect of his attendance at a conference or meeting is hereby deemed to be as valid as if subsection (1) had come into force on the commencement of the said section 214, and subsection (2) had come into force on the commencement of section 28 of the Local Government Amendment Act 1980.

3Bay of Islands County Council: Validating invalid fees

(1)Notwithstanding that the Bay of Islands County Council has purported to fix all fees charged before 1 November 1982 in relation to scheme plans for the subdivision of land (hereafter in this section referred to as the said fees) by resolution,—

(a)each of the said fees is hereby validated and deemed to have been as lawful; and

(b)all actions of the said Council in charging the said fees are hereby validated and deemed to have been as lawful; and

(c)all money received by the said Council in payment of any of the said fees is hereby deemed to have been as lawfully paid and received; and

(d)such of the said fees, and such part of any of the said fees, charged in respect of any plan submitted to the said Council before 1 November 1982 as has not yet been paid to the said Council is hereby deemed to be as lawfully payable, and as capable of being recovered as if it had always been lawfully payable,—

as if each of the said fees had been fixed by a bylaw of the said Council, duly made, and confirmed on the day on which the said Council purported to fix that fee by resolution.

(2)Every resolution of the said Council purporting to fix any of the said fees may be amended or revoked by the said Council in the same manner and to the same extent as if it were a bylaw.

(3)Where any resolution of the said Council made before 1 November 1982 purported to amend or revoke any earlier resolution of the said Council purporting to fix any of the said fees, that first-mentioned resolution shall be deemed to have had effect according to its tenor.

4Clutha County Council: Validating illegal lump sum payment scheme

The Silverpeaks County Council (Lump Sum Contributions) Empowering Act 1981 is hereby deemed to apply, and to have applied from its commencement, to the Clutha County Council as if—

(a)every reference in that Act to the Silverpeaks County Council were a reference to the Clutha County Council; and

(b)every reference in that Act to the Silverpeaks County were a reference to the Clutha County; and

(c)the reference in section 3(1) of that Act to section 443 of the Local Government Act 1974 were a reference to section 241 of the Counties Act 1956; and

(d)the words “Pursuant to the Silverpeaks County Council (Lump Sum Contributions) Empowering Act 1981” had been omitted from form 1 of the Schedule of that Act.

5Dunedin City Council: Validating unlawful contract for purchase of computer

Notwithstanding section 23(1) of the Local Authorities Loans Act 1956,—

(a)the contract dated 11 June 1982 between the Dunedin City Council (hereafter in this section referred to as the Council) and International Computers (New Zealand) Limited for the purchase of certain computer equipment and software (hereafter in this section referred to as the Contract) is hereby deemed to be as valid and lawful; and

(b)all payments made by the Council under the Contract are hereby deemed to have been as lawfully made; and

(c)any future payment by the Council provided for in the Contract is hereby deemed to be as lawfully payable,—

as if the period over which the Council is required by the Contract to make payments were part of the year ending with 31 March 1983.

6Kaiapoi Borough Council: Authorising lease of land held in trust

(1)Subject to subsection (2), the Kaiapoi Borough Council is hereby authorised and empowered—

(a)to lease to the Boy Scouts Association of New Zealand—

(i)that part of the land described in subsection (4) (hereafter in this section referred to as the said land) upon which there was, immediately before the commencement of this Act, a building erected by that Association; and

(ii)such other part or parts of the said land as, in the opinion of the said Council, it is necessary or desirable to lease to that Association in order to enable it to obtain adequate access to and benefit from the land described in subparagraph (i); and

(b)to subdivide the said land accordingly.

(2)The said Council shall not lease more than 1 000 m2 of the said land to that Association.

(3)Such part of the said land as the said Council leases to that Association shall thereupon be freed from all trusts, reservations, and restrictions to which it was theretofore subject; and the Registrar of the Canterbury Land Registration District shall, upon the presentation to him for registration of any lease of any part of the said land to that Association by the said Council, take all such steps, and make all such entries in his registers, as are necessary to give effect to the foregoing provisions.

(4)The said land comprises all that parcel of land situated in the Borough of Kaiapoi containing approximately 6 677 m2 being part RS 320 and being all the land comprised and described in certificate of title No 390/289 (Canterbury Registry).

Section 6(3): amended, on 1 June 2002, pursuant to section 38(2) of the Land Transfer (Computer Registers and Electronic Lodgement) Amendment Act 2002 (2002 No 11).

Notwithstanding that the notice required by section 52 of the Rating Act 1967 was not given in respect of the rates and charges specified in the Schedule of this Act (hereafter in this section referred to as the said rates),—

(a)the said rates are hereby validated and deemed to have been lawfully made:

(b)all actions of any County Council in levying and collecting any of the said rates made by it are hereby validated and deemed to have been lawful:

(c)all money received by any County Council in respect of any of the said rates made by it is hereby deemed to have been lawfully paid to and received by it:

(d)such part of any of the said rates as has not yet been paid to the County Council by which it was made is hereby deemed to be lawfully payable, and capable of being collected as if it had always been lawfully payable.

8Te Puke Borough Council: Authorising use of proceeds from sale of endowment for reserve development

(1)Notwithstanding section 230 of the Local Government Act 1974, if the proceeds from the sale of all or any part or parts of the endowment land described in subsection (2) exceed the full cost to the Te Puke Borough Council of developing that land for sale for industrial purposes, the said Council may expend all or such part as it thinks fit of the amount of the excess for either or both of the following purposes:

(a)the development of the Council Reserve known as Centennial Park:

(b)the construction of facilities on that reserve.

(2)The said land comprises all those parcels of land situated in the Borough of Te Puke together containing approximately 1.1093 hectares being Lot 1 DPS 13934 and Lots 3 to 5 and 7 to 10, and Part Lots 1, 2, and 6, DPS 30558, and being—

(a)all the land comprised and described in certificates of title Nos 27C/796, 27C/797, 27C/798, 27C/799, 27C/800, 27C/801, and 27C/802 (South Auckland Registry):

(b)the residue of the land comprised and described in certificate of title No 12B/133 (South Auckland Registry):

(c)so much of the land comprised and described in certificates of title Nos 27C/795 and 28B/332 (South Auckland Registry) as was formerly comprised and described in the said certificate of title No 12B/133.

9West Coast Electric Power Board: Validating unlawful purchase of shares and authorising purchase of further shares

(1)Notwithstanding that it is not authorised by law to do so, the actions of the West Coast Electric Power Board in—

(i)an agreement with Milne David Barrymore Jellie, Philip John Heaphy, and John Michael Marshall dated 14 September 1982 to purchase a further 3 333 $1 shares in that company at a price to be agreed between the parties to that agreement; and

(ii)an agreement with Trumans Limited dated 27 October 1982 to purchase a further 3 333 $1 shares in that company at a price to be agreed between the parties to that agreement,—

are hereby validated and deemed to have been lawful; and those agreements are hereby validated and deemed to be lawful and binding according to their tenor.

(2)The West Coast Electric Power Board is hereby authorised and empowered to have and exercise all the rights and powers in respect of any shares that it holds in Westland Data Processing Limited and in respect of that company, including the right to subscribe for or purchase further shares in that company, that it would have if it were an individual person.

ScheduleRates and charges validated

Rates and charges in respect of the year that ended with 31 March 1980 made by the Mackenzie County Council, the Strathallan County Council, and the Waimate County Council by resolutions passed on 1 June 1979, 6 June 1979, and 30 April 1979, respectively, and confirmed by resolutions passed on 6 July 1979, 11 July 1979, and 28 May 1979, respectively, on rateable property within its district:

(1)A charge of $47.50 for each ordinary domestic water supply.

(2)An area water rate of 117.4 cents per hectare on all rateable property situated within the Downlands Water Supply District.

(3)A charge of $12.50 for each sheep-dip water supply, tank water supply, and domestic slaughterhouse water supply.

(4)A charge of $25 for each water supply to a cowyard where the number of cows milked does not exceed 5, and each pigsty water supply.

(5)A charge of $25, plus 70 cents for every 1 000 gallons of water in excess of 50 000 gallons supplied during the year, for each water supply to a cowyard where the number of cows milked exceeds 5.

(6)A charge of $10 for each public hall water supply and domain water supply.

(7)A charge of $10.50 for each water supply to a school with fewer than 101 pupils.

(8)A charge of $17.50 for each water supply to a school with more than 100 and fewer than 201 pupils.

(9)A charge of $26.25 for each water supply to a school with more than 200 and fewer than 401 pupils.

(10)A charge of $35 for each water supply to a school with more than 400 pupils.

(11)A charge of $70, plus 70 cents for every 1 000 gallons of water in excess of 50 000 gallons supplied during the year, for each water supply to a hotel, motel, market garden, golf club, sawmill, racecourse, shop, or other establishment of an extraordinary nature.

(12)A charge of $55, plus 70 cents for every 1 000 gallons of water in excess of 50 000 gallons supplied during the year, for each high-pressure water supply.

(13)A minimum water charge of $25 for each rateable property serviced by the Downlands Water Scheme whose area exceeds 2 024 m2.

Rates and charges in respect of the year that ended with 31 March 1981 made by the Mackenzie County Council, the Strathallan County Council, and the Waimate County Council by resolutions passed on 30 May 1980, 18 June 1980, and 26 May 1980, respectively, and confirmed by resolutions passed on 4 July 1980, 2 July 1980, and 16 June 1980, respectively, on rateable property within its district:

(1)The rates and charges specified in clauses (1) to (6) and (11) to (13) of that part relating to the year that ended with 31 March 1980.

(2)A charge of $20 for each water supply to a school with fewer than 101 pupils.

(3)A charge of $35 for each water supply to a school with more than 100 and fewer than 201 pupils.

(4)A charge of $50 for each water supply to a school with more than 200 and fewer than 401 pupils.

(5)A charge of $100 for each water supply to a school with more than 400 pupils.

Rates and charges in respect of the year that ended with 31 March 1982 made by the Mackenzie County Council, the Strathallan County Council, and the Waimate County Council by resolutions passed on 29 May 1981, 17 June 1981, and 13 May 1981, respectively, and confirmed by resolutions passed on 3 July 1981, 22 July 1981, and 15 June 1981, respectively, on rateable property within its district:

(1)A charge of $53 for each ordinary domestic water supply.

(2)An area water rate of $1.30 per hectare on all rateable property situated within the Downlands Water Supply District.

(3)A charge of $14 for each sheep-dip water supply, tank water supply, and domestic slaughterhouse water supply.

(4)A charge of $27.50 for each water supply to a cowyard where the number of cows milked does not exceed 5, and each pigsty water supply.

(5)A charge of $27.50, plus 80 cents for every 1 000 gallons of water in excess of 50 000 gallons supplied during the year, for each water supply to a cowyard where the number of cows milked exceeds 5.

(6)A charge of $11 for each public hall water supply and domain water supply.

(7)A charge of $22 for each water supply to a school with fewer than 101 pupils.

(8)A charge of $38 for each water supply to a school with more than 100 and fewer than 201 pupils.

(9)A charge of $55 for each water supply to a school with more than 200 and fewer than 401 pupils.

(10)A charge of $110 for each water supply to a school with more than 400 pupils.

(11)A charge of $77, plus 80 cents for every 1 000 gallons of water in excess of 50 000 gallons supplied during the year, for each water supply to a hotel, motel, market garden, golf club, sawmill, racecourse, shop, or other establishment of an extraordinary nature.

(12)A charge of $60.50, plus 80 cents for every 1 000 gallons of water in excess of 50 000 gallons supplied during the year, for each high-pressure water supply.

(13)A minimum water charge of $25 for each rateable property in respect of which a single rates assessment is issued.

Contents

1General

2Status of reprints

3How reprints are prepared

4Changes made under section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989

5List of amendments incorporated in this reprint (most recent first)

Notes

1General

This is a reprint of the Local Legislation Act 1982. The reprint incorporates all the amendments to the Act as at 1 June 2002, as specified in the list of amendments at the end of these notes.

Relevant provisions of any amending enactments that contain transitional, savings, or application provisions that cannot be compiled in the reprint are also included, after the principal enactment, in chronological order. For more information, seehttp://www.pco.parliament.govt.nz/reprints/.

2Status of reprints

Under section 16D of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989, reprints are presumed to correctly state, as at the date of the reprint, the law enacted by the principal enactment and by the amendments to that enactment. This presumption applies even though editorial changes authorised by section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 have been made in the reprint.

This presumption may be rebutted by producing the official volumes of statutes or statutory regulations in which the principal enactment and its amendments are contained.

3How reprints are prepared

A number of editorial conventions are followed in the preparation of reprints. For example, the enacting words are not included in Acts, and provisions that are repealed or revoked are omitted. For a detailed list of the editorial conventions, seehttp://www.pco.parliament.govt.nz/editorial-conventions/ or Part 8 of the Tables of New Zealand Acts and Ordinances and Statutory Regulations and Deemed Regulations in Force.

4Changes made under section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989

Section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 authorises the making of editorial changes in a reprint as set out in sections 17D and 17E of that Act so that, to the extent permitted, the format and style of the reprinted enactment is consistent with current legislative drafting practice. Changes that would alter the effect of the legislation are not permitted.

A new format of legislation was introduced on 1 January 2000. Changes to legislative drafting style have also been made since 1997, and are ongoing. To the extent permitted by section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989, all legislation reprinted after 1 January 2000 is in the new format for legislation and reflects current drafting practice at the time of the reprint.

In outline, the editorial changes made in reprints under the authority of section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 are set out below, and they have been applied, where relevant, in the preparation of this reprint:

•omission of unnecessary referential words (such as “of this section” and “of this Act”)

•typeface and type size (Times Roman, generally in 11.5 point)

•layout of provisions, including:

•indentation

•position of section headings (eg, the number and heading now appear above the section)

•format of definitions (eg, the defined term now appears in bold type, without quotation marks)

•format of dates (eg, a date formerly expressed as “the 1st day of January 1999” is now expressed as “1 January 1999”)

•position of the date of assent (it now appears on the front page of each Act)

•punctuation (eg, colons are not used after definitions)

•Parts numbered with roman numerals are replaced with arabic numerals, and all cross-references are changed accordingly

•case and appearance of letters and words, including:

•format of headings (eg, headings where each word formerly appeared with an initial capital letter followed by small capital letters are amended so that the heading appears in bold, with only the first word (and any proper nouns) appearing with an initial capital letter)

•small capital letters in section and subsection references are now capital letters

•schedules are renumbered (eg, Schedule 1 replaces First Schedule), and all cross-references are changed accordingly

•running heads (the information that appears at the top of each page)

•format of two-column schedules of consequential amendments, and schedules of repeals (eg, they are rearranged into alphabetical order, rather than chronological).